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The
Ice Hotel
In
January 2001
Canada
’s first Ice Hotel was opened.
That's right – Ice Hotel.
The hotel is constructed of 12,000 tons of snow
and 400 tons of ice covering more
than 30,000 square feet.
It has ceilings over 18 feet high, walls
covered with original artwork, and furnishings carved
out of ice blocks.
The Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada is composed
of 32 rooms and theme
suites, two ice art galleries, a magnificent ice
chapel, two exhibition areas,
an ice cinema, and an immense lobby with an ice
chandelier lit by fiber optics.
The four-foot thick
walls are ice. The floors are ice.
The ceilings are ice. The furniture and the
decorations are made of ice.
Yes, even the BEDS are ice!
If you get too
cold in this environment, you can warm yourself in one
of the hotel’s Jacuzzis or stand by one of its
functional fireplaces.
Guests
may spend the night in an individually designed ice
room, snuggled up in thick polar sleeping bags, on
deer pelts and mattress over the illuminated ice bed.
Visitors are invited to look around the hotel
and marvel at the different themed rooms.
They must be careful of the impressive
sculptures dotted around the place – one may bump
into a huge ice bear or American Indian, even a frozen
Statue of Liberty!
Reservations
are limited – not only by the number of rooms (32
rooms and suites with a capacity to accommodate more
than 84 people per night), but also
by the time frame that the hotel is open.
You see, you can only make reservations for The
Ice Hotel from early January to April 1st,
because after that, it begins to melt...*
Like
the fabulous Ice Hotel, we understand from the
Scriptures that this WORLD with its powers and values
is passing away (see 1 John 2:15-17).
And one day –
“the Day of the Lord” – “the Lord will come as
a thief in the night, in which the heavens will
pass away with a great noise, and the
elements will "melt" with
fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in
it will be burned up”
(2 Peter 3:10). This
world is temporary, to be replaced with “a new
heaven and
earth” (2 Peter 3:13) conforming to God's desire.
Therefore,
“since everything will be destroyed in this way,” Peter
asks,
“What kind of people ought you to be?” (2
Peter 3:11). His
answer: “You ought to live holy and godly lives as
you look forward to the day of God and speed its
coming” (2 Peter 3:11-12 NIV).
He calls us to live here and now by the values
of that new era, rather than expending all our time
and energy on things so impermanent.
In short, God wants us to be Christians,
for only Christians will live eternally with Him in
the place “in which righteousness dwells” (2 Peter
3:13).
Jesus
paid the price so that you can receive this ETERNAL
inheritance if
you will: believe
and trust Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn from your sin in repentance
(2 Corinthians 7:9-10), confess
Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), be baptized
(immersed) in His name for the forgiveness of sins
(Acts 2:38), and live faithfully
to Him until He comes (Revelation 2:10).
The
Ice Hotel presents a challenge: Are WE expending our
time and energy on things that will soon "melt"
away?
“The
world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who
does the will of God abides forever” (1 John 2:17).
Won’t
YOU
do the will of God?
God bless you!
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
* Additional
facts regarding the Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada which is
reconstructed each year for reservations January –
April 1 are available at this website: http://www.icehotel-canada.com
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